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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re your last sentence, OP: your child will absolutely be accepted to schools that do not have insanely low acceptance rates.  A couple of pointers from recent experience:
- there are tons of students with your child’s stats.  
- as terrific as he undoubtedly is, he is one o[b]f tens of similar thousands [/b]
- he is wise to make a plan.  Create a brutally honest and balanced list of reaches, targets, and safeties that he would be happy to attend 
- acceptance rates are such that reaches for all means just that - reach for ALL regardless of stats 
- he should thoughtfully prepare a strategy for ED, EA, RD and rolling 
- he should identify the teachers likely to write the best LORs and ask them early
- he should provide his guidance counselor with information to include in the very influential guidance counselor letter
- he should be prepared to create applications that not only reflect his achievements and ECs but that also convey to AOs who he is as a human being and why his presence on a campus will add to the campus as a community
-he should take comfort that the dream school and top 25 concepts are a fallacy. There are tons of schools in this country where he can be happy and thrive. But he’s got to do the work to find them, and not be influenced too much by rankings or the perception of others 
- he should be humble and realize that hard work is everything, no one is entitled to anything, and positivity is infectious, vs the understandably negative feelings he sounds like he is experiencing.  Get energized, chin up!
-also remind him that this too shall pass. [/quote]

there are no "tens of thousands" 4.0 10+AP 1500+ applicants.[/quote]

Only about 20K people getting 1500+ on their SAT, they're not all going to have 10+ APs.[/quote]

The Common App releases a report each academic season that provides data on SAT submission numbers. Approximately 75,000 kids applied last year to college and submitted a score of 1500+ (includes equivalent ACT scores). You, like many others, fail to include superscores or multiple tests taken during high school. The SAT percentiles are based on one sitting during one Academic year. Also, 20-30% of high schools do not offer AP or IB courses and the majority of US high schools only offer 5-8 courses. Therefore, you are correct that there are not tens of thousands of students taking 10+ AP courses and scoring above 1500 on the SAT but it doesn’t matter because colleges evaluate students based on what’s available to them. So a 1500 kid that maxed out at five AP courses versus 10 AP courses are going to evaluated the same on Academic ability and rigor. [/quote]

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